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[namarie]

> Maybe his Japanese (distant) ancestry was a factor?

Why would it be?

[catalogia → namarie]

Both atomic bombings, the Daigo Fukuryū Maru, and the Fukushima disaster come to mind. Perhaps a better question is why wouldn't people with a personal connection to Japan be wary of nuclear contamination? Or 'why don't the rest of us?'

Certainly there are some people in/from Japan who are enthusiastic about the future of nuclear energy. But I think it's fair and reasonable to say that cultural trends exist and a randomly chosen person with a personal connection to Japan is more likely to be critical of nuclear energy than a randomly chosen person from the rest of the general population.

[QuesnayJr → catalogia]

Cassini was launched more than a decade before the Fukushima disaster.

[sanxiyn → namarie]

As the only nation attacked by nuclear weapons, Japan tends to be anti-nuclear.

[fsh → sanxiyn]

Nonsense. Few countries rely more on nuclear energy than Japan. Even Fukushima didn't manage to change that.

[namarie → sanxiyn]

However he is not japanese.